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Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
👓 Power-walking with Kathy Griffin | 1843
When the comedian got on the wrong side of Trump, she laced up her trainers and marched away from the scandal. Sheila Marikar tries to keep up
No disrespect to "why was six afraid of seven," but "base 10" is the funniest math joke.
I get it, but I’m not getting it. There’s nothing funny about it to me, or I’m completely missing it. 7,8,9 on the other hand is still stupidly hilarious.
Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause all operations. TechCrunch was tipped off to Maker Media’s unfortunate situation which was then c…
This Pride Month, your LGBTQ creators deserve more than just a rainbow logo.
👓 Univ. Of Alabama Returns $21.5 Million Gift; Donor Urged Boycott Over Abortion Law | NPR
The move comes after Hugh Culverhouse Jr. urged students and businesses to boycott Alabama over its restrictive new abortion law. The school says its rejection of the money isn't related to that law.
Wow!
Controversial ‘smart locks’ show the way that surveillance tech begins with the poor, before spreading to the rest of us
Instead, when we talk about technology, we should be thinking about power dynamics.
Great piece about ethics in technology.
Zach Leatherman (Zach Leatherman)Hosting my own content and comments allows me to be a bit more creative with it. So I decided to take this a step further and have a little fun with negative comments.
This isn’t intended to be a hot-take on Comic Sans. Instead it’s meant to change the tone of the negativity to make it sound like a clown is yelling at a kid’s birthday party.
This is an awesome way to handle some comments online.
👓 Adding Instagram to a Social Reader | Mr.Kapowski
Chris (mrkapowski.com)I mentioned yesterday my frustrations with Instagram were at an all-time high, and I wanted to “soft quit” the app by adding my follows as a source in Monocle. I didn’t find any existing guide on how to do this (sorry if I misse...
Granary will give you some additional options I suppose, but I’ve always just blindly used Ryan Barrett’s other atom-based tools for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to make feeds for my feed reader of choice.
In my experience, the session cookies needed for these will last from about four months or more before needing to be refreshed. I just refreshed my Instagram cookie earlier this week.
👓 Upshot | IndieWeb
Jacky Alciné (indieweb.org)Upshot is an experimental event management platform being built by Jacky Alciné to provide a rallying point of events (a IndieWeb form of Eventbrite).
TODAY ON XRAY:
(1)News with Friends with Lillian Karabaic and Michael Leverette
(2)Talk Media News
(3) Everything Is Interesting: Old Wives’ Tales
(4) Lillian interviews Aaron Parecki with IndieWeb
(5) A rebroadcast of our interview from with Andrea Rodgers of Our Children’s Trust
(6) Since it’s Wednesday, we close out the show with Ben DeJarnette from Bridgeliner
The audio link is automatically queued up to the beginning of the Aaron Parecki interview about IndieWeb. I only listened to that portion of the show.
👓 Unwalled.Garden: souped-up RSS for P2P social apps | Paul Frazee
Beaker is an experimental peer-to-peer Web browser. In this post, I will describe a new files-oriented protocol we are developing called Unwalled.Garden which will drive the applications stack for Beaker sites.
👓 High-flying ladybug swarm shows up on National Weather Service radar | LA Times
The ladybug bloom appears to be about 80 miles by 80 miles, but the ladybugs aren’t in a concentrated mass that size; they’re spread throughout the sky.
YouTube, after years of criticism, has finally decided to specifically ban videos that promote the idea that one group is superior to others. The new policy, announced Wednesday, includes a complet…
👓 The Future of Learning | NomadWarMachine
I’ve been thinking a lot about resilience recently. Not as the ability to spring back up when knocked down (though that can be a good thing). But as the ability to adapt, to look at a new situation and think about how one can apply one’s existing skills.